Ask the 77-year-old about Mark Martin and Kyle Busch breaking the record he once held for the most wins in what is now the Nationwide Series.

“Wouldn't be any of them that ever won 317 NASCAR races,” Ingram bluntly stated when asked about the record.

Ingram, who was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame Wednesday night, won 31 races in what was then known as the NASCAR Busch Series and won the series championship in 1982 and ’85. He won numerous other races in the old NASCAR Sportsman Series and on various short tracks.

Mark Martin broke Ingram's series record and won 49 Nationwide races. Kyle Busch now holds the record with 63 wins.

Ingram is a little bitter that the most recognition he got was when his record was broken.

“I didn't get credit for nothing hardly that I done in most of this news media and the TV people and everybody,” Ingram said. “They want to talk about Mark Martin beating my record.

“Now, I was 45 years old (when the series started and) they're talking about that record. They think I dropped out of the sky at 45 and started racing? I won 317 NASCAR point races. I've got record books, and they got most of it out of the NASCAR record books.”

How about his records compared with Dick Trickle, who legend has it won more than 1,000 (some say 1,200) short-track races?

“Dick Trickle was no doubt a great racecar driver but he didn't race against the kind of competition I did and didn't win as many races as I did,” Ingram said. “He claimed every time something happened a little bit different, another year or two, he'd won another 100 races.

“He started racing in '67. He stopped in '87 and won 1,400 races. Now anybody ever figure that out? That's the most preposterous thing I've ever seen in my life.”